First name origins & meanings:
- French: Alder tree
- Latin: Spring
First name variations: Vern, Verda, Verne, Verney Last name origins & meanings:
- English (of Norman origin): habitational name from Vernon in
Eure, France, named from the Gaulish element ver(n) ‘alder’ +
the Gallo-Roman locative suffix -o (genitive -ōnis).
- French: habitational name from the same place as in 1 or from any
of numerous other places in France with the same name and etymology.
This name appears in the following lists:
Flowers and Trees,
Nobel Prize Winners
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